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The tradesmen quite shared Anstruthers' point of view. Their reasoning was delightfully simple and they were wholly unaware that it might have been called gross. A man over his head and ears in debt naturally expected his creditors would be paid by the young woman who had married him.
"Your horse is cropping the grass where you left him, but you are not going to him," said a singularly meaning voice. "You are coming with me." Anstruthers endeavoured to convince himself that he did not at that moment turn deadly sick and that the brute would not make an ass of himself. "Don't be a bally fool!" he cried out, trying to tear himself free.
"They?" ejaculated the Dowager Lady Anstruthers. "Whom may you mean?" "Mother and father and Betty and some of the others." Her mother-in-law put up her eye-glasses to stare at her. "The whole family?" she inquired. "There are not so many of them," Rosalie answered. "A family is always too many to descend upon a young woman when she is married," observed her ladyship unmovedly.
This being achieved, she adroitly passed them over to Lady Anstruthers, who, Nigel observed with some curiosity, accepted the casual responsibility without manifest discomfiture. To the aching Tommy the manner in which, a few minutes later, he found himself standing alone with Jane Lithcom in a path of clipped laurels was almost bewilderingly simple.
He began to talk incoherently in good, nasal New York, at the mere sound of which Lady Anstruthers made a little yearning step forward. "Superior any other," he muttered. "Tabulator spacer marginal release key call your 'tention instantly 'justable Delkoff no equal on market." And having found what he had fumbled for, he handed a card to Miss Vanderpoel and sank unconscious on her breast.
And Betty, with the beautiful impersonal smile, said: "We felt it so unfortunate that even your solicitors did not know your address." When, at length, they turned and strolled towards the house, a carriage was drawing up before the door, and at the sight of it, Betty saw her companion slightly lift his eyebrows. Lady Anstruthers had been out and was returning.
To sit by a window and watch the kaleidoscopic human tide passing by on its way to its pleasure, to reach its work, to spend its money in unending shops, to show itself and its equipage in the park, was a wonderful thing to Lady Anstruthers.
You may remember that the poor woman was said to be the daughter of some rich American, and it seemed unexplainable that none of her family ever appeared, and things were allowed to go from bad to worse. As it was understood that there was so much money people were mystified by the condition of things." "Anstruthers has had money to squander," said Mount Dunstan. "Tenham and he were intimates.
"Then there are other things we must do. We must go to shops and theatres. It will be good for you to go to shops and theatres, Rosy." "I have nothing but rags to wear," answered Lady Anstruthers, reddening. "Then before we go we will have things sent down. People can be sent from the shops to arrange what we want."
In her character as "single-handed" cook, Mrs. Noakes had sent up uninviting meals to Lady Anstruthers for several years, but she had not seen her ladyship below stairs before. And this was the unexpected arrival the young lady there had been "talk of" from the moment of her appearance. Mrs.
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